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Radiation Therapy for Uterine (Endometrial) Cancer
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]]>Radiation therapy]]> is the use of penetrating beams of high-energy waves or streams of particles called radiation to treat disease. Radiation therapy destroys the ability of cancer cells to grow and divide.
Radiation therapy may be used alone or in addition to surgery. Radiation is tailored to your needs and situation. Treatment with both internal and external radiation may be used for patients who are not candidates for surgery due to poor health or those who refuse surgery. Radiation may be combined with hormone therapy. This treatment may also be used for advanced disease to control bleeding, pain, and other symptoms.
Types of Radiation Therapy Used for Uterine Cancer
Internal (intracavitary) and external radiotherapy are used in the treatment of uterine cancer. Internal irradiation involves the insertion of radioactive seeds into the uterus, near the tumor. The radioactive material is inserted through the vagina and left in place for two to three days while you remain in the hospital. During your stay, limitations will be placed on visitors and contact with staff to limit exposure to the radiation. Once the implants are removed, casual contact with others is safe.
Low Risk Patients
This group consists of patients with grade 1 or 2 tumors that invade through less than one half of the muscle wall of the uterus, or grade 3 tumors that do not invade the muscle at all, with no spread to lymph nodes or invasion of blood vessels or lymphatic channels. These patients are usually treated with total abdominal ]]>hysterectomy]]> and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (TAH-BSO), which is the surgical removal of the entire uterus and both ovaries. In women who have other medical problems that would make such surgery risky or more difficult than usual, radiotherapy is an option. The cure rates with radiotherapy are slightly lower than with surgery.
Intermediate Risk Patients
This group consists of patients with grade 1 or 2 tumors that invade through more than one half of the muscle wall of the uterus or invade the cervix, with no invasion of blood vessels or lymphatic channels and no spread to other parts of the body. These patients are usually treated with surgery (TAH-BSO) and removal of the lymph nodes in the pelvis. Radiotherapy is often recommended after surgery for these patients, since it has been shown to reduce the risk of the cancer coming back in the pelvis. However, the chances of survival do not appear to be improved by the use of radiation therapy after surgery.
High Risk Patients
This group consists of patients with grade 3 tumors with any degree of invasion of the muscle wall of the uterus, spread to the tissues around the uterus or elsewhere in the pelvis, grade 2 tumors with invasion through more than one half of the muscle wall of the uterus or into the cervix, or tumors that invade blood vessels or lymphatic channels. These patients are usually treated with surgery (TAH-BSO) to remove as much of the cancer as possible. Their risk of the cancer coming back is high, however, so radiotherapy is often recommended after surgery.
Side Effects and Possible Complications of Radiotherapy
- Bladder irritation
- Vaginal itching, burning, dryness, or menstrual cessation
- Reduction of sexual desire
- Fistula formation, which occurs when a hole forms between the bladder, intestines, and vagina
- Nausea
- Fatigue
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American Cancer Society website. Available at: http://www.cancer.org/ .
Bast R, Kufe D, Pollock R, et al, eds. Cancer Medicine. 5th ed. Hamilton, Ontario: BC Decker Inc; 2000.
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Rakel R. Bope E, ed. Conn's Current Therapy. 54th ed. St. Louis, MO: WB Saunders; 2002: 1094-1096.
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Washington, D.C. -- The Independence Day celebration started early this year, on the very last day of June, in front of the Supreme Court of the United States.
I got to the marble steps just a little before the ruling in the Hobby Lobby case, in which the company objected to covering some forms of birth control for its employees, citing religious reasons. Already there was a hopeful anticipation, as Kristan Hawkins from Students for Life led the students, interns, activists, wives and moms in a rally.
Also before the Court were the similar religious-liberty concerns of the Hahn family -- they are Mennonites -- who run a cabinet-making company in Pennsylvania. The Hahns are about the last people in the country who would have wanted to make a federal case of anything. But the federal government had forced them, along with many others whose cases are still pending, including the religious charity group Little Sisters of the Poor, into this position.
The 5-4 decision from the court vindicated the rights of such groups and dealt a blow to the Justice Department. Immediately, opponents of the ruling on the scene outside the Court -- and throughout those places where we gather to opine -- declared that although women were being "screwed" (the most family-friendly phrase of the online reaction), birth control is "here to stay." This was never a question. No one's taking away contraception access on account of the Hobby Lobby ruling, and the Greens were never advocating such a thing. The Obama administration, however, was actively denying the religious liberties of the Greens and Hahns.
In the end, the Court ruled that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act protected these family-run businesses from the coercive power of the mandate. Bill Clinton signed the legislation, which Ted Kennedy helped pass, in 1993.
Outside the Court that morning, activists representing groups including NARAL Pro-Choice America, who helped craft the mandate in the first place, were on-site, too, led by a young man screaming about birth control, as a rainbow-colored sign greeted traffic, insisting that the religious-liberty claim at issue was "Bigotry Disguised as Religion." But what I saw were mostly young women who came out to voice their appreciation for Americans who would go to Court to defend what has been described as "our first, most cherished liberty."
In her dissenting opinion, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg asserted that "The exemption sought by Hobby Lobby and Conestoga would ... deny legions of women who do not hold their employers' beliefs access to contraceptive coverage." This portrait is an unnecessary distraction, as abortion-inducing drug and contraception coverage is not a right that people have fought and died for, while religious liberty is.
Ginsberg also writes: "Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community." As much fun as the media has with the old Mitt Romney line about people and corporations, the owners of Hobby Lobby didn't surrender their religious-liberty rights the day they decided to supply the scrapbookers of America.
Upon reflection, I wonder if Justice Ginsberg might be relieved that she did not win the day. Not so long ago, she voiced the opinion that the Court's Roe v. Wade ruling had actually done damage to the abortion-rights cause, having been an unnecessary momentum-killer. If the Obama administration, bolstered by the abortion industry, truly does believe that abortion and contraceptive coverage is basic health care, it should make that case out in the open. Instead, since the very beginning of the debate, it has argued using obfuscation and demonization, sowing confusion and even intentionally misleading, while accusing others of "bearing false witness."
We live in a time when there is a lot of confusion about fundamentals -- faith, family and freedom. When the women showed up that morning at the Court, they were encouraging all Americans to treasure the gifts we have as a free people. You don't have to shop at Hobby Lobby to celebrate the victory won for us all before the Court.


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Everybody knows the name George Lucas. Whether you love or hate the guy, his name is instantly recognizable and sends off the first few notes of John Williams' Star Wars score in your head. Another name you may or may not know is Rick McCallum. McCallum's relationship with Lucas began on the early 1990s TV series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, after which Lucas tapped McCallum to produce the three Star Wars prequels. Steve recently talked with McCallum to discuss the World War II action-adventure pic Red Tails (which Lucas and McCallum produced), and while we'll have the full interview up closer to the film's release, we wanted to share a few tidbits with you today.
McCallum talked at length about the long-in-the-works live-action Star Wars TV series, discussing the show's tone, the logistics of doing an effects-heavy series on television, how soon the show might come to fruition, and a lot more. Hit the jump to see what he had to say.
The budget issues on the live-action TV series (working title Star Wars: Underworld) are well-documented. The difficulty of getting great-looking visual effects done on a television budget is the chief sticking point standing in the way of production:
"This is the best way to put it into perspective: we did Episode III—which is one of the larger of all the Star Wars films in relation to set construction, visual effects, the amount of visual effects and everything else—and that was made for $100 million which was unheard of even five years ago, because had it been made by any studio or anywhere in the United States it would have been easily double that price. So imagine an hour's episode with more digital animation and more visual effects and more complicated in terms of set design and costume design than a two-hour movie that takes us three years to make, and we have to do that every week and we only have $5 million to do it. That's our challenge."
So how close are they to overcoming the challenge? Let's just say don't expect to see Star Wars on any network schedules this fall:
"It's not a challenge that I think can be dealt with in the next year or two years, I think it's gonna be a little bit more longer term goal."
McCallum said that one of the most expensive aspects of the series is the CG characters:
"[George has] come up with so many extraordinary digital characters that are onscreen for 30-40 minutes. Most people who love movies and kind of understand the process realize that if you do a character like Gollum or Jar Jar or any major digital character, that costs twice as much as having Tom Cruise in a movie. You get 150 people working for two years on a 40 minute performance and they all make serious money, you just add it up; that's gonna be a serious $20-30 million character. That's our problem, how do we get that down?"
The producer went on to lay out the other specific issues they're trying to overcome, including the overwhelming number of virtual sets that are needed:
"[With] digital 3D matte paintings, how do we cut the time from 2-3 weeks to 2-3 days? On a television budget, on television screens it doesn't have to be film res, but each one of these are major challenges for us. How do we get virtual set software? Because we can't build any of this stuff. I mean we could do it if we did it in a traditional format where we have one set with all the characters, but George doesn't work that way. We have 40-50 set pieces per hour, every minute and a half to two minutes there's another set. Well we can't build that and do that every week, that's virtually impossible, so we have to come up with virtual set software and an environment that allows us to be able to do that on blue and green screen and be able to turn those backgrounds around really, really fast. We're getting there, but it's not perfect yet and it's still too expensive."
While production is still a ways off, over 50 scripts have already been banked for the show once it gets the go-ahead. Regarding the tone, McCallum revealed that it's actually quite a bit darker than the film series:
"It's much darker [than the movies]. It's a much more adult series. I think, thematically, in terms of characters and what they go through, it will be…if we can ever get it together and George really wants to pursue it, it'll be the most awesome part of the whole franchise, personally…It's Empire Strikes Back on steroids."
McCallum said that they originally envisioned the series as "Deadwood in space," so it's easy to see where that darker tone comes from. The producer elaborated on the Deadwood comparison, conceding that we won't necessarily see any Jedi throwing around the word "fuck":
"Obviously, we changed it for where we couldn't go in terms of language. It was to be serious performances, very complicated relationships, unbelievable issues of power and corruption, greed, vanity, pride, ego manifesting itself at levels that only equal the world that we live in now, but, as I said, on steroids."
So while we'll have to wait quite a while for the live-action Star Wars series, it certainly sounds like it'll be one of the most ambitious feats of TV storytelling ever attempted. Keep an eye out for Steve's full interview with McCallum which is chock-full of information on Red Tails, the future of visual effects, and George Lucas' filmmaking plans in the years ahead.


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The choice of vape's was bad enough, finally ordered a Joyetech ego AIO, and some juices.
Am worried I ordered the wrong juices. I ordered tobacco flavoured 30mg juice from Canada Ejuice.
I just assumed I should get the strongest one because Im' such a heavy smoker. And that tobacco flavoured would be teh most like smoking without the related coffin.
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I just downloaded a compiler (borland 5.5+) and am trying to design a program for drawing electronics schematics. Am about half way through the tutorials now and just have a few questions.
Can you view the visual effects that I want to add at the start of the program? (Don't have any code for it yet, sorta figuring out how to start.
When are you able to view what your program will look like? Will it look like any other standard program?(currently using windows but am downloading linux soon)
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A British murder mystery, "Night Must Fall," is Robinson Secondary's upcoming play. It's slated for Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 15, 16, 17, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 at www.robinsondrama.org and $12 at the door.
"It's a psychological thriller set circa 1935 in Essex, England," said Director Chip Rome. "And it's off the beaten path from the productions most high schools do."
Cranky old Mrs. Bramson rules over a couple servants; but soon, the household dynamics change. Her niece Olivia comes to stay and a man from Scotland Yard tells them all a woman is missing. As it turns out, she's been murdered. Meanwhile, a man named Danny arrives, gets the maid pregnant and charms his way into Bramson's good graces. But Olivia begins to suspect he was involved in the murder, and the tension keeps building.
"My mother passed away last June, and I remember prompting her, in the 1960s, when she played Olivia in community theater in Worcester, Mass.," said Rome. His cast and crew of about 30 have rehearsed since early September and he's pleased with their efforts.
"They're diving into the challenge of the accents and interpreting their lines and the way their characters evolve over time," he said. "It's been a delightful experience to have such a small cast because I can delve into character development in a way in which I can't in a larger production. This is a character-driven play."
"It takes the audience on a ride—with enough red herrings and change that they're not sure where they're going," continued Rome. "It's melodramatic, with the actions and scene transitions enhanced by music. Student Alex Bulova found the original music and, for only key pieces, he trained and conducted the school orchestra and recorded it."
He says the audience will be fascinated by Danny, whose character has several dimensions. "His attitude flips between quiet, silly, dangerous, charming and threatening," said Rome. "And people will like the atmosphere of another time and place, plus the building suspense of what misdeeds have been or might be done."
Sophomore Sarah Marksteiner plays Olivia. "She comes off as uptight, but really has more personality," said Marksteiner. "She writes poetry in her spare time and secretly longs for a more exciting life. She craves drama, but doesn't want to admit it."
"I absolutely love this role," said Marksteiner. "She has qualities that are almost an extreme version of me, and I like the way she evolves so drastically throughout the piece. I think the audience will really enjoy the tension that starts to develop, and they'll become attached to the characters."
Portraying Bramson is senior Carys Meyer. "She's in a wheelchair and is a crotchety old lady who wants people to do everything for her," said Meyer. "She loves attention, wants to control her whole world and wants everything to revolve around her."
ENJOYING HER PART, Meyer called it different from her past characters and a complete departure from her own personality. "It's been interesting playing around with her voice and accent," she said. "And people push me around in a wheelchair, the whole show, so that's fun."
"The show has a lot of humorous moments, but the story will also keep the audience guessing," said Meyer. "Because it's a classic murder mystery, it'll be fun for the audience to try to figure out."
Senior Ivonte Milligan plays Danny. "He's a complicated guy and everybody loves him, except Olivia," said Milligan. "So he tries to get her to love the Danny he shows the public—but he slips up and shows the real Danny. He's like your average serpent." Milligan said the audience will like the set, the show's "dark and mysterious" lighting and mood, plus the overall suspense of the play.
Initially, he said, "I had to wrap my head around who Danny was and what his quirks were. But it's fun playing somebody crazy who's calm and collected one moment and blowing up, the next. This is my first lead and it's nice to have that responsibility; my mom, who's always supported me, is proud."
The lighting designer is junior Anna Ready, who created a vision of what the lights in Bramson's home would be like. "With a show so dramatic, I had to think of different colors and angles of lights that really set the mood for the scenes," she explained. "The lighting lets the audience know something's going to happen, without saying anything."
She said it took about 20 minutes to design, but a month to hang all the lights so they'd work exactly the way she wanted. She controls them by a computerized light board. "My freshman year, I talked with and watched the lighting designer, and it was fascinating," said Ready. "Then when he graduated, I took over."
TOUGHEST, she said, is angling all the lights because "if it's not just right, it's really obvious." But she loves the liberty she has "to do what I want with my design. And seeing it actually come to life is a really good feeling."


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It's almost Easter, and that means Easter egg hunts. Those are pretty fun—for the participants. But have you ever tried to set one up? Putting together a thoroughly enjoyable egg hunt is hard work. Here's everything you'll need to pull off an egg hunt to remember.
Plastic Bright Egg Assortment (144 pc)
Sure, this one is super simple. But do you know how hard it can be to find eggs in bulk last minute? Luckily, Amazon Prime has you covered, as always. Cheap overnight shipping and you're good to go. Price: 144 for $15
Duck Commander Face Camo Paint
What's going to stop all the sugared-up little monsters from finding all the rest of the eggs you spent hours hiding? Camouflage. Yes, you're going to spend some extra time painting all the eggs. But that's just more time you get to relax in the house while the gaggle tries to track down well-concealed eggs that an Army Ranger would have trouble finding. Price: $5
Velcro Sticky-Back Hook & Loop Fastener Roll In Dispenser Box
There's an expectation to these hunts. A few eggs will be tied to string. A few will be up in a tree. A few under the couch. But what if you turned it around on them and hid them at all manner of angles? A group of frustrated and thoroughly outsmarted children, that's what. Either combine this with the camouflage for the most frustrating and traumatic even in your kids' lives, or use it to put a single obvious egg completely out of reach, which will definitely end with a serious injury that someone else has to deal with. Price: $17
Centon DSP2GB10PK 10 x 2GB Multi-pack Pro USB Flash Drive
The thing about egg hunts is that the prizes suck. The eggs all have candy in them, except the kids have been eating candy all day. So that's hell for parents, and anticlimactic for kids, because they already have a ton of what they are getting. That or there is money in the eggs, which is just tacky. So be cool and download some music or movies or games and stash them on flash drives for the little digitally-literate hellions. Price: $66 for 10
Sphero Robotic Ball
You know how there's always that onnnnne last egg that the kids can't seem to find? And how it frustrates everyone in attendance, because you want to let the kids do it for themselves, but you also just want to go the heck inside, and everyone is frustrated and no longer having fun? Well, what if that last egg wasn't so much hard to find as it is sentient and running away from its would-be captors? Worth every penny to mess with the kids' heads. Price: $130


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DAINESE is the leading world manufacturer of protective clothing for dynamic sports. Pioneer president Lino DAINESE founded the company in 1972, when he started marketing his line of leather motocross pants. In the meantime, DAINESE produces a wide pallet of protective clothing and articles. What hasn't changed? DAINESE still tests products the same practical way; directly at the sites of the hardest and most challenging races with sport leaders like Valentino ROSSI, Max BIAGGI, and other top pilots. Main focus in the motor scooter arena is on gloves, kidney belts, pants and jackets. DIANESE products combine dynamic design with cutting edge safety protection. You can be sure of maximum protection when you need it.
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Instructor Rita Geirola, France Hatt-Arnold
Language English
Date 27.11.2019 — 01.12.2019
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Location European Rolfing® Association e.V. (ERA) Training Center
Flyer + Registration 2018-2019
Starting in 2015 through 2018 the European Rolfing® Association will offer three rounds of Rolf Movement™ Trainings. These three rounds will be taught in a new modular format: each Training Round will take place over 3 Phases; and each Phase will have two or three Modules. This is Round 3, Phase III, Module 1 thus European Rolf Movement™ Training.
The aim of teaching in smaller modular units is twofold. Firstly to give Rolfers™ attending the training the opportunity to bring the elements experienced in class to their practices, and then to come back to class with further questions and insights from what has been applied. Secondly Rolfers™ will be able to combine the Parts from any round: you might, for example, start with Phase 1 and 2 of the first Training Round, and complete your formation with Phase 3 of the second Training Round. The Phases of each of the three Training Rounds will be taught by an instructor/assistant pair from the European Rolf Movement™ Faculty. Please see schedule below.
Phase 1 (11 days)
In this part of the training we will deepen the understanding of the functional aspects of the 10 Rolfing® sessions. The embodied explorations will be a platform for the Rolfer™ to deepen their understanding of the Rolfing® process and to be able therefore to offer more resonant movement explorations for their clients session by session.
Phase 2 (10 days)
In this second phase we will focus on learning how to strategize and build a series of 3 Rolf Movement™ Sessions, not necessarily linked to the classical Rolfing Process; this will support Rolfers™ in creating a richer tool-set for meeting the varied needs of clients. Ultimately the intention is to support the client's development of their body awareness and their ability to creatively sustain the benefits they gained from their 10 series Rolfing® process. That said this series of three Rolf Movement™ Sessions could equally be used with clients who have not undergone the classical Rolfing® Process itself and may be looking for an introduction to it.
Phase 3 (9 days)
In this last phase, using Rolf Movement theory, principles and embodied explorations, we will explore further how to create sequences and sustain series of movement exploration classes to be used in a group setting. This phase is intended to assist Rolfers™ in creating additional support for their clients on-going work on themselves. It will also provide a new vehicle with which to reach out to interested groups, through Rolf™ Movement classes, as a potential way of meeting new clients and introducing them to the Rolfing® Process.
Phase 3 invites already certified Rolf Movement™ Practitioners to participate in the newly developing aspect of the Rolfing body of knowledge –"leading groups".


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I began working for Purdue University in June 1996 for Housing and Food Services ~ Cary Quadrangle and Tarkington Halls.
In August 2004 I moved to become an Academic Advisor in ECET in the College of Technology (currently Purdue Polytechnic Institute).
In October 2010 I moved to Lead Academic Advisor in CGT in the College of Technology (currently Purdue Polytechnic Institute).
I met my wife at Purdue and she continues here as well. Our only daughter, Jocelyn, attends a local high school.
I have always gone by T.R. My official name is Thomas Ronald. I was born during the Vietnam War, and I had a cousin on my father's side of the family named Thomas Parker and a cousin on my mother's side of the family named Ronald Cooley. They were both killed in action. My parents honored their memory by giving me their names and using the initials so they are both remembered. Both have their names on "The Wall" in Washington, D.C.
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AMG Wealth Partners, a Palm Beach, Fla., subsidiary of Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), announced Monday that it has acquired an equity interest in Clarfeld Financial Advisors.
Based in New York and with a presence in London, Clarfeld provides investment, estate and financial planning, as well as tax planning and compliance, risk management and family office services to corporate executives, business owners and other high-net-worth individuals and their family trusts and foundations.
Clarfeld's management and employees will continue to hold a majority of the equity in the business and retain operating autonomy. As part of the transaction, a group of Clarfeld's senior professionals has made long-term employment commitments to the firm. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
"Through our affiliation with AMG Wealth Partners, we will retain the essential elements of our firm's operating culture and three-decade history of success while gaining access to enhanced opportunities for growth, especially in our non-domestic business, given the scale and resources of a global financial partner," Clarfeld President and CEO Robert Clarfeld said in a statement.
Affiliated Managers is a global asset management company with equity investments in leading boutique investment management firms. As of June 30, the aggregate assets under management of AMG's affiliates totaled more than $470 billion in more than 400 investment products across a range of investment styles, asset classes and distribution channels. AMG's strategy is to generate growth through the internal growth of existing affiliates, as well as through investments in new affiliates.
"Clarfeld is recognized as one of the leading wealth advisory boutiques and we are pleased to welcome them as a partner," said AMG Chairman and CEO Sean Healey in a statement. "Rob Clarfeld and his team have built a highly regarded advisory business with a loyal client following, a strong culture of risk management and a breadth of services and expertise typically found only at much larger firms."
Founded in 1981 by Robert Clarfeld, the firm advises on approximately $4 billion of client assets. In addition to its domestic capabilities, the firm has expertise in solving the financial, estate and tax planning and compliance needs of U.S. citizens working abroad. Clarfeld is ranked among the top independent investment advisory firms in the U.S. by Barron's.
Read AMG Wealth Nabs Veritable Equity Stake in Big Succession Planning Deal at ThinkAdvisor.


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The below is linked from Jihadwatch.org. Since I frequently post about Islamic, Muslim, and jihadist issues, I thought it would be beneficial, not only to others who might have a passing interest in what Islam entails, but also to those who would like to fortify their general understanding of the subject–people with a thirst for more knowledge in this area. People like me for example.
Aside from informative websites like The Gates of Vienna, Dhimmitwatch and Jihadwatch, as well as countless others who operate to educate the open-minded in the ongoing war that is the global jihad, there are additionally uncountable books on the subject by such renowned authors as Robert Spencer, Serge Trifkovic, Daniel Pipes, ex-Islamic terrorist Walid Shoebat, and Ibn Warraq to name only a scant few.
If however, you'd rather simply begin with a general understanding of Islam, the Qur'an, and global jihad, the Islam 101 piece at Jihadwatch by writer Gregory M. Davis, PhD, author of Religion of Peace? and director of the highly informative documentary, Islam: What the West Needs to Know, is a great way to begin one's apprenticeship on this matter, particularly if you are searching for the non-whitewashed, politically incorrect version offered by such groups and peoples as CAIR, George Galloway, the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), and Jimmy Carter–a tiny shortlist of appologists and obfuscators. In other words, this is an excellent beginning in ones' enlightenment to the truth.
Introducing Islam 101 – Part 1
Islam 101 is meant as an educational tool for people to become more educated about the fundamentals of Islam and to help the more knowledgeable better convey the facts to the uninitiated. All should feel free to distribute and/or reproduce it. It will become a new menu item at JW soon. Enjoy!
by Gregory M. Davis, PhD
author, Religion of Peace? Islam's War Against the World
producer/director, Islam: What the West Needs to Know — An Examination of Islam, Violence, and the Fate of the Non-Muslim World
Table of Contents
1) Introduction
2) The Problem Clarified
3) The Basics
a) The Five Pillars of Islam
b) The Quran — the Book of Allah
c) The Sunnah — the "Way" of the Prophet Muhammad
d) Sharia Law
4) Jihad and Dhimmitude
a) What does "jihad" mean?
b) Muslim Scholar Hasan Al-Banna on jihad
c) Dar al-Islam and dar al-harb: the House of Islam and the House of War
i) Taqiyya — Religious Deception
d) Jihad Through History
i) The First Major Wave of Jihad: the Arabs, 622-750 AD
ii) The Second Major Wave of Jihad: the Turks, 1071-1683 AD
e) The Dhimma
f) Jihad in the Modern Era
5) Frequently Asked Questions
a) What about the Crusades?
b) If Islam is violent, why are so many Muslims peaceful?
c) What about the violent passages in the Bible?
d) Could an Islamic "Reformation" pacify Islam?
e) What about the history of Western colonialism in the Islamic world?
f) How can a violent political ideology be the second-largest and fastest-growing religion on earth?
g) Is it fair to paint all Islamic schools of thought as violent?
h) What about the great achievements of Islamic civilization?
6) Glossary of Terms
7) Further Resources
1. Introduction
My book and documentary are meant to serve as concise explanations of the major moving parts of Islam and their implications for Western society. They are meant as remedies to the often confused, misleading, and cluttered public discussions of Islam, which tend to leave the layman as much in the dark as to Islam's nature and intentions as he was before. Islam 101 is a condensation of the book and documentary with the aim of lending clarity to the public understanding of Islam and of exposing the inadequacy of the prevailing views. It is also intended as a tool by which those more familiar with Islam's true nature and goals may more effectively represent the facts to the uninformed.
Islam 101 – Part 2
Here is the second part of Islam 101. (It didn't all fit the first time.)
In 622 AD (year one in the Islamic calendar, AH 1), Muhammad abandoned Mecca for the city of Medina (Yathrib) some 200 farther north in the Arabian peninsula. In Medina, Muhammad established a paramilitary organization that would spread his influence and that of his religion throughout Arabia. Because there has never been a separation of the political-military and the religious in Islam, this development was entirely natural by Islamic principles. By the time of his death in 632 AD, Muhammad had extended his control in a series of raids and battles over most of southern Arabia. The conquered populations of these areas either had to submit to Muslim rule and pay a protection tax or convert to Islam.


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Women aren't taking enough risk with their investments or their careers, say two prominent women in financial services.
Sallie Krawcheck, the former head of Merrill Lynch and Smith Barney who now heads the global women's professional network 85 Broads, included women's resistance to investment risk in her list posted Tuesday of the top 10 financial mistakes women make.
Krawcheck listed women's aversion to investing risk at No. 7, noting that while it may sound "counterintuitive" for women to gamble since they tend to live longer than men and retire with less in savings, women still "need to push themselves" to take "somewhat greater (but still prudent)"risks to get a higher return.
But Eleanor Blaney, consumer advocate for the CFP Board, told ThinkAdvisor that women's risk aversion is actually "the most common, as well as the most detrimental" financial mistake that she's seen women make.
While women fail to take enough risk with their investments, they also do not take enough risk in their careers, Blayney says, "which is one reason why nine to five jobs, such as you find in teaching, health services and government are still populated primarily by women, whereas more entrepreneurial professions are still dominated by men."
Krawcheck agrees that an advisor will usually be a "him."
Indeed, women "represent only a quarter of CFPs, and this number has not changed much in quite a long time," Blayney says. "We hear from many women that they can't enter a field such as financial planning where compensation often reflects the planner's efforts to build a practice and clientele, because they need the assurance of a relatively high base level of compensation immediately."
In other words, Blayney continues, women "cannot take the risk of variability in their compensation, particularly in the beginning." Another crucial mistake that women make is not "asking for the starting salaries that men ask for, regardless of the profession — a mistake which follows them often for the rest of their careers, as that initial gap between starting salaries, as well as associated benefits, compounds over time."
Krawcheck noted in her top ten mistakes list that women need to "look at the right numbers" when making the "keep working/stay at home decision" based on today's salary.
"How often do you hear this: 'If I leave the workforce, I'll be giving up $x in salary, which barely covers the babysitter's cost'?" she writes. "Once we women step out of the workforce, we average 84% of our prior compensation if we return after one year and just 50% (!) after three years."
Following are four other mistakes that Krawcheck says women make when it comes to finances:
- Letting your husband or partner manage the money without your involvement. Very 1968… and not in the cool, mod way. Few of us think we'll get divorced or that tragedy will strike, but look around. It does. You don't want to be learning about your financial situation while you're in shock.
- Using your husband's financial advisor, even if you don't really like him/know him/can't stand him. (And he is usually a "him.") Here's a test: at your next joint meeting, how much does the advisor engage you / speak to you / look at you? If "he" spends most of his time talking to "him," find your own.
- Not asking for jargon to be explained. Don't let politeness or not wanting to look dumb get in the way of understanding your finances. Research shows that both men and women are shy of asking for explanations of financial terms; even so, men still invest while women more typically won't. (I agree: it's hard to know which is the worse outcome. So please just ask the questions. It's your right.)
- Not buying long-term care insurance. Here's a shocker: 70% of 65-year-olds will need some form of long-term care. And, again, we're around for six to eight years longer than he is.
Check out Krawcheck's LinkedIn post for more financial mistakes women make.
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One Direction mastered the art of matching at the 2013 American Music Awards. The boys looked polished and wore varying shades of grey and black. The quintet always looks great, but tonight they really worked the carpet.


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We're pleased to announce that the microfilmed copy of William Walter Cleary's diary has been digitized and made available on KDL. The original microfilm also includes a typed transcript of his diary.
The diary dates from June 1862 to April 1864 and was kept by
William Walter Cleary while employed as a clerk in the Second Auditor's
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Fans of George Harrison will have a variety of ways to celebrate his 70th birthday this weekend.
B4 And After, a band comprised of veteran musicians, kicked things off with a Concert For George! at Blues Bar in Mount Prospect tonight, that covered his career from the early Beatles days on through to his solo work.
Pat DiNizio of The Smithereens will be performing Beatles songs at the Sears Corporate Center in Hoffman Estates tomorrow night as part of a fundraiser for the Hoffman Estates Loyal Parents Group. The Center is located at 3333 Beverly Road, the event kicks off at 6:00 PM.
On Breakfast With The Beatles this Sunday morning on WXRT, host Terri Hemmert will be doing a tribute to the man she affectionately calls, "the not so quiet Beatle." Regular contributor/Beatles historian Professor Moptop will also be on hand, most likely offering behind-the-scenes looks at some of Harrison's recordings. Listeners outside the Chicago area can stream the show through the station's website.
Sir Frankie Crisp & Friends have recorded a digital-only charity single of "My Sweet Lord." I'm assuming the cover art is by Georgina Flood, since she posted a link to Amazon on her Facebook page. All proceeds from the sale of "My Sweet Lord" will go to the AMREF Foundation, to help improve healthcare in Africa.
Flood also designed the official t shirt that will be given to the first 300 people to arrive at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York's Times Square this Sunday when Q104.3 DJ Ken Dashow hosts a Breakfast With The Beatles celebration of Harrison's 70th birthday. The charming Ms. Flood is flying in from Ireland to be part of the fun.
Fans can also celebrate by checking out Enya Harrison RA's Happy 70th Birthday George Harrison! Facebook page where she's been posting photos and some of her drawings.
The always informative online newsletter The Second Disc recently reported on the fifth collection of demos by artists signed to The Beatles' Apple Publishing. All but three of the 24 tracks on 94 Baker Street Revisited - Poptastic Sounds From The Apple Era 1967 - 1968 are previously unreleased.
Debbi and Vicki and Debbi Peterson of The Bangles were among several musicians performing Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Rubber Soul at the Wild Honey Orchestra benefit for the Autism Think Tank last Saturday in North Hollywood, CA. John Wicks from The Records and Matthew Sweet also took part. The Peterson sisters had a a sort of Paisley Underground reunion when they met up with Michael Quercio from The Three O'Clock backstage. The Three O'Clock covered "Lovely Rita Meter Maid."
Director Ryan White has been given permission from Apple Corps to use the songs "I Saw Her Standing There," "I Will," "I Feel Fine," and "Love Me Do" for his documentary about longtime Beatles Fan Club secretary Freda Kelly. Good Ol' Freda will have its world premiere ar the SXSW Film Festival next month in Austin, TX.


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Pico projectors: remember them? They were all the rage before everyone moved on to tablets and 3DTVs. A little late to the game, but Toshiba's two pico projectors are svelte models with a only storage and connection keeping them apart.
The Lumileo P100 weighs 96g (crucial when this is very much an additional gadget and you're already weighed down with other kit), and projects images at VGA (640 x 480) resolution at up to 150cm diagonally, from distances up to 65-inches. It has a 200:1 contrast and 14 lumens, and if you look closely you'll actually see there's a 0.5W stereo speaker included, too.
On the other hand, the Lumileo M200 is more hefty at 150g, with that extra weight dedicated to storing 2GB of inbuilt memory, a memory card slot, and stereo headphone jack. It can be used as a remote control, and actually has MS Office Viewer built-in, so would be handy for those meetings where you simply must show someone a Word, PowerPoint or Excel document.
Unfortunately, the M200 doesn't project any better image resolution (just VGA), but the diagonal size is increased slightly, to 152cm. Likewise, it can be used at a greater distance of 197cm.
Battery life isn't mentioned for the M200 nor the P100, but the M200 has a 1800mAh Li-ion, and the P100 a 1200 mAh Li-ion.
What it boils down to is price (it hasn't been mentioned) and whether you want something that has to be chained to a source such as a laptop (the P100), or want to be free as a daisy and projecting movies on the go (the M200). [Toshiba]


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Welcome to my galleries!
The images you will see as you browse through these pages are a wide-ranging representation of what I have been lucky enough to see in the world as I hike, camp, play and work.
Photography has become far more than a hobby for me. It has allowed me to see places and things I would never have seen otherwise; it has shown me that I have an artistic element to my personality; and it has given me a way to express myself in ways words cannot.
PLEASE let me know your thoughts about the images you see in my galleries. I hope you enjoy at least one of these images as much as I have enjoyed creating and collecting them. And feel free to check back often, as I am always looking for new subjects to share with you!


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Here is some good news from the Dev Team, iPhone 3G and iPod Touch 2G (non-MC model) users who have upgraded to the latest iOS 4.1 beta can jailbreak their devices using redsn0w 0.9.5 beta 5. The process to jailbreak will remain the same, however, users will have to point redsn0w to use the 4.0 IPSW (the public one, not the developer GM one) instead of iOS 4.1 IPSW.
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Rare Condition Causes People to Brew Beer in Their Own Belly
It's called "Auto-Brewery Syndrome," and it may take artisanal homebrewing to disturbing new lows.
In a report published recently by the International Journal of Clinical Medicine, medical professionals in Texas recalled treating a 61-year-old man who would regularly exhibit signs of inebriation despite not having drunk a drop.
"He would get drunk out of the blue — on a Sunday morning after being at church, or really, just anytime," Panola College dean of nursing Barbara Cordell is quoted as saying. "His wife was so dismayed about it that she even bought a Breathalyzer."
Despite being diagnosed by physicians as a "closet drinker," the man's condition continued to perplex Cordell, who eventually teamed up with Lubbock-based gastroenterologist Dr. Justin McCarthy to get to the bottom of this medical mystery.
After isolating him in a hospital room for an entire day and feeding him carbohydrate-rich foods, doctors noted that his BAC was a solid 0.12.
It turned out that an overabundance of brewer's yeast in the man's gut was causing his intestinal tract to act, as NPR put it, "like his own internal brewery."
Brewer's yeast — or Saccharomyces cerevisiae — is commonly used in the brewing of beer and can be found in a bunch of daily foods.
On rare occasions, such as in the case of the sexagenarian Texan, brewer's yeast can refuse to leave the body, instead staking a claim to some meatbag's intestinal tract.
The live-in yeast will then ferment any sugars it comes into contact with, turning them into ethanol, resulting in inadvertent intoxication.
Only a few similar cases could be found in recorded medical history, and the blame is most often placed on antibiotics or an immune-system-suppressing illness that had allowed the yeast to thrive and transform its host's six-pack abs into a six pack.


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The Harvey Girls are one more example of women making their way out west for a new life in a role unthinkable at the time in eastern environs. As Will Rogers, an enthusiastic and loyal Harvey House customer, said: "In the early days, the traveler fed on the buffalo. For doing so, the buffalo got his picture on the nickel. Well, Fred Harvey should have his picture on the one side of a dime, and one of his waitresses with her arms full of delicious ham and eggs on the other side, 'cause they have kept the West supplied with food and wives." (Quoted in The Harvey Girls: Women who Opened the West by Lesley Poling Kempes, p. 102)
Anne Carrole writes about cowboys who have grit, integrity and little romance on their mind and the women who love them. You can check out her contemporary romance, Re-ride at the Rodeo, at The Wild Rose Press. She also is co-editor of the review website, www.lovewesternromances.com


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This is iOS version of the Cave Run Game (flash) by Activeden author
This is my rendition of the very awesome Canabalt , featuring extremely simple gameplay with an Indiana Jones-esque theme.
Hold the mouse button to jump. Hold longer to jump higher. Collect coins and don't fall!
This game is based on Cocos2D framework
Please Notice : it's not 100% same with the original flash version , there are minute differences ,e.g. the jump speed ,scoring rule etc .. …. just let you before you buy
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We see it as outdated, obsolete, even tacky at times and yet each time it is reborn to become even fresher and richer. Ceramic never ceases to amaze us. It's the phoenix of decorative materials.
We were originally seduced by the practical side of ceramic: shock resistant, watertight, not affected by changes in temperature, easy to wash, perfectly hygienic. It was the ideal material for the kitchen (floor and work space), the bathroom (floor and walls) and the vestibule (floor).[caption id="attachment_14142" align="aligncenter" width="601"] iStock[/caption]
Years have passed and designers have recognized the potential of ceramic in terms of aesthetics. They have embraced it enthusiastically. The days when ceramic was associated with being poor are long gone. Today, ceramic offers almost infinite possibilities when it comes to decorating.
Ceramic imitates natural stones, wood, marble and concrete. Sometimes the designs are quite surprising, such as snakeskin. This explains its astonishing ability to make a floor come alive. And even make it sophisticated. Ceramic comes in so many colours, textures and motifs that you have an abundance of choice.[……]


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Queen Elizabeth to Meet With Pope Francis in April
It will be the British monarch's fifth audience with a pope at the Vatican, following earlier meetings with Pius XII, John XXIII, and two meetings with John Paul II.
LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Phillip, duke of Edinburgh, will visit Rome on April 3 and will meet with both the Pope and the Italian president, the British Monarchy has announced.
In a Feb. 4 press release, the monarchy said that the queen — who is the head of the Church of England — is traveling to Rome at the invitation of Italian President Giorgio Napolitano.
After meeting with the politician in a private lunch at the presidential palace, "Her Majesty and His Royal Highness will have an audience with His Holiness Pope Francis at the Vatican," the statement said.
According to the BBC, the queen had originally planned to visit Rome in 2013, but the visit was canceled due to the monarch falling sick.
This will be the 87-year-old queen's fifth meeting with a pope at the Vatican and her fourth as queen: Previously, she had met Pope Pius XII in 1951, Blessed Pope John XXIII in 1961 and Blessed Pope John Paul II in 1980 and 2000.
In 1982, the queen became the first British monarch to host and meet a reigning pope in the United Kingdom, welcoming John Paul II to the royal residences at Buckingham Palace. She also greeted Benedict XVI with a full state welcome during his 2010 visit to the country.
The queen's visit to Rome will be her first trip outside of the United Kingdom in three years. Buckingham Palace also announced that the queen will travel to France in June to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy.


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Roberts energized by postseason chase
BALTIMORE -- Brian Roberts has finally made his way back to the lineup on a regular basis, and he's given the Orioles a big lift since returning in late June.
Roberts has missed most of the last three seasons. He played 59, 39 and 17 games the last three years, but he's already gotten into 58 this year after getting hurt in the first series of the year and missing nearly three months.
Roberts has also moved into his old leadoff spot more in recent days, including in Saturday's 4-3 win over the White Sox in 10 innings. Roberts hit his second home run in three games and fifth of the season in that game. Nate McLouth had hit leadoff much of this season, except against certainly lefties, which put Roberts in the nine-hole.
But it's clear that Roberts is getting his timing back at the plate. His average is .240, but he is hitting with more power, as he homered on Thursday and again on Saturday. Plus, Roberts is making a number of great plays in the field. He came up with several on Friday night to help Scott Feldman go the distance in a 4-0 win over the White Sox.
"Nobody's having more fun than Robby," Orioles manager Buck Showalter said. "When you've been through the things and some of the teams he's been on, to be in this situation, I think has been a real energizer."
Showalter said Roberts has kind of cut loose and is playing really hard.
"He's going for it, and whatever happens, happens," Showalter said. "He's been so engaged in all facets of the game."


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As I was helping a manager write a job description recently, he leaned over and said, "Wait. There's one more 'requirement' we need to add." Waiting a beat, he smiled: "Ability to make boss look good." We both laughed – but we both recognized the truth in what he had said, too.
While the blatantly "political" (one might say, "Machiavellian") nature of this idea is uncomfortable for me, there is no doubt that this represents a cold, hard truth in many if not all organizations. It might not be necessary for getting the job, but "making the boss look good" is often a de facto requirement for keeping (or succeeding in) a job long term.
How can one do so with integrity, serving the best interests of their organization, their boss, and – admittedly – their own career? Three "rules" come to mind.
NOTE: The following examples concern qualified, good-performing bosses. Incompetent and "mean" bosses are another case entirely – and, as they say, a story for another day.
#1: Invite them into situations that play to their strengths
We once had a CEO who, while surprisingly quiet and shy in one-to-one or small group settings, was a very engaging speaker in a large room. Therefore, when we invited him to kick-off a "Welcome to the company" orientation presentation on the day of an acquisition, we were quite surprised when he struggled mightily in telling the company's story to the crowd.
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Although plenty of entrepreneurs choose to go after opportunities that are easy to spot, you shouldn't overlook the many hidden opportunities that are out there. If you keep an open mind, you just might uncover a gem. That's what brothers Dan and Russell Schlueter, 42 and 43, respectively, did. At a trade show in 1977, the Harvest Ventures founders spotted an opportunity that everyone else passed by and successfully incorporated that product into their business. Now they expect 2002 sales of their Waconia, Minnesota, pet products company to exceed $10 million.
Opportunity Knocks
According to Dan, their business--which at the time sold only one product, a chew bone for dogs--hit a turning point in 1997 after they attended the Backer Show, a pet trade show in Chicago. "We were exhibiting our Harvest Chews [for dogs]," he says. "We walked [around] and saw a man everyone was ignoring. His booth was small, without a lot of fanfare, but he had a great demonstration. He put three or four cups of water in a bowl with just a small amount of pellets, and the pellets absorbed everything. The demonstration was extraordinary."
When the Schlueters stopped and talked to the demonstrator, they discovered the "miracle" pellets, intended for use as kitty litter, were made of silica sand, a very strong absorbent. From the start, the brothers felt the pellets would offer a significant benefit to users: 4 pounds of silica sand lasted as long as 28 pounds of traditional kitty litter. Says Dan, "[We] look for products that are different and that can be demonstrated." Convinced they had a winning innovation on their hands, Dan and Russell set out to strike a deal with the largest silica gel manufacturer in China so they could add the pellets to their product line.
As it turned out, the Schlueters were right in a big way. The litter pellets they now sell--called Ultra Pearls in grocery stores and mass merchandisers and Crystal Clear Litter Pearls at pet retailers--have gathered numerous awards, including the 1999 Outstanding Technology Achievement Award from Petsmart and the 1999 Editors' Choice Award from Cat Fancy magazine.
Thinking Outside the Box
But this kind of success can't be achieved without a lot of hard work. Following the trade show, the brothers talked with industry experts to make sure others agreed this innovative product had real potential. Next, they gave out free samples to people with cats. After receiving positive feedback, the brothers felt they had the foundation needed to move forward.
But would price-conscious consumers really pay $14 to $16 for a 4-pound bag of Crystal Pearls, when a 14-pound bag of a competing brand cost only $6 to $7? The Schlueters thought so. The price difference wasn't really all that significant when you consider that a 4-pound bag of Crystal Pearls lasts 30 days--as long as two 14--pound bags from the competition.
At this point, the Schlueters had a competitive price and a great product demonstration. In 1998, they hit the pet trade show circuit again. By 1999, they were able to land not only the big pet retailers, but also dozens of distributors that served independent pet retailers.
By this time, grocery stores also were starting to show interest at trade shows, and in 2000, the brothers were able to introduce Ultra Pearls in grocery stores and mass merchandisers nationwide. Grocery stores are often difficult for entrepreneurs to sell to, because they're forced to go through food brokers, who aren't interested in supporting small-volume products. But these brothers had a tactic for getting by such resistance. According to Dan, "A major reason for our success in grocery stores was our willingness to offer them a better margin." In a low-margin business like grocery stores, every extra percentage point makes a big difference.
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Steps to Success
You can spot new opportunities with a strong chance for success by following these criteria:
1. The product has a big difference people will notice. With so many thousands of products on the market today, you won't succeed without a big enough advantage to make people stop and take notice. In the case of Crystal Pearls, the product had two features customers observed immediately: First, it came in a much smaller, more convenient bag--4 pounds vs. a 14-pound bag of traditional kitty litter. Second, Crystal Pearls clearly absorbed all fluids, while competitive products simply turned the liquid into little clumps.
2. It has a strong selling point that will entice the distribution channel to carry your product. If you can't get the distributor to carry your product, it won't matter if consumers like it or not because they'll never even get the chance to see it. Because a distribution channel may only carry 10 to 25 percent of the products available to it, getting distributor support requires that you have at least one strong selling point. The Schlueters had two advantages: First, the smaller bag that's attractive to customers is also attractive to retailers because it allows them to produce more sales per amount of shelf space than the competition; and second, the Schlueters were able to offer a better margin. One of the biggest mistakes inventors make is to believe distributors will carry their product for less margin because their product is new. Actually, the opposite is true: Distributors want more margin from a new product.
3. Pricing should be comparable to competing products. In the case of Crystal Pearls, a month's supply cost about the same as a month's supply of a competitor's product. Fact is, consumers are more likely to take a chance on a new product if it's close in price to existing products. Most consumers have been burned dozens of times on the supposed benefits of a new product, so they approach new product claims with a great deal of skepticism. A high price is all they need to decide not to buy.
The Schlueters clearly have an entrepreneurial bent. In addition to Harvest Ventures, they run two other businesses: Sourcing Solutions, which helps companies locate international sources for their products, and RDS Associates, which creates engineering solutions and custom parts for the motorcycle industry. But an entrepreneurial spirit only works when you sell products or services that people value. To attain business success, keep your eyes open for opportunities, follow the guidelines for a saleable new product, and move fast before someone else discovers your "golden goose."
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Don Debelak is a new-business marketing consultant and author of Think Big: Make Millions From Your Ideas.
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A novel of tender love and slow, unfurling mystery, Japanese author Banana Yoshimoto folds readers into the lives of Chihiro and Nakajima.
The Lake is narrated by Chihiro, a painter who was born out of wedlock and raised by her unorthodox parents in a small country town. When her mother dies, Chihiro moves to the city. It is here that she meets Nakajima, her neighbour. The novel courses the two as they fall in love, however Nakajima hides a secret—a secret that Chihiro needs to know if they want to continue their relationship.
Yoshimoto's characters are vivid and nuanced, and the prose is strong in its observant nature, for instance, "Of course, it's true that sometimes the pink at sunrise somehow seems brighter than the pink at sunset, and that when you're feeling down the landscape seems darker too – you see things through the filter of your own sensibility. But the things themselves, out there, they don't change."
For a relatively short novel there is a great sense of emotional depth at play here.


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To say Dell has had a topsy-turvy 2013 is an understatement. The Round Rock, Texas-based company started the year with a bang when news leaked that it was in talks with private equity firms to go private. Then came the doubters, namely Carl Icahn, who said Dell would be better off remaining a public company and fought founder and CEO Michael Dell for control of his company. Next there were the up-and-down server market-share wars with Hewlett-Packard. Then, of course, there was the big $24.9 billion leveraged buyout that turned Dell into a private company.
But, there was more -- much more. What follows is a top-10 list of the most pivotal moments and biggest news stories for Dell in 2013.


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In two major speeches, President Obama sent strong signals this week about what he envisions for the military in a post-Sept. 11 era, a new path which can be described in a word: downsized.
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President Barack Obama congratulates a graduate as another one celebrates at the United States Naval Academy graduation ceremony in Annapolis, Md., Friday, May 24, 2013.
The president said the United States will have stricter limits on drone attacks overseas and telegraphed a new emphasis on fighting terrorism, based more on focusing on targeted, isolated threats and less on an over-arching projection of force.
Just as the government's mission is changing, so is that of the U.S. military.
Both are shrinking in scale.
During Obama's four and a half years in White House, military spending has declined and the military active duty force has shrunk by about 29,000. American soldiers and Marines are no longer engaged in combat in Iraq and in Afghanistan their presence will soon dwindle to a residual force. "A perpetual war -- through drones or Special Forces or troop deployments -- will prove self-defeating," the president said in a speech Thursday at the National Defense University in Washington.
This weekend some who died in those conflicts will be commemorated at Arlington National Cemetery and other cemeteries across the nation.
While saying that "our nation is still threatened by terrorists," Obama contended that "we have to recognize that the scale of this threat closely resembles the types of attacks we faced before 9/11."
As Obama has shown by his aversion to any involvement in the Syrian civil war and by his tightly calibrated "lead from behind" strategy to support the overthrow of Moammar Gaddafi in Libya, he's determined to not be the president that leads America into another traditional ground combat war.
Saying America has reached a "crossroads," President Obama laid out clearer, more narrow guidelines for deadly drone strikes. NBC's Peter Alexander reports.
In his speech Thursday he warned that "putting boots on the ground" in Syria or elsewhere would lead to "more U.S. deaths, more Black Hawks down… and an inevitable mission creep in support of such raids that could easily escalate into new wars."
Obama's risk aversion contrasts with a leading Democrat of the Clinton administration, Madeleine Albright. In 1993 Albright, then the U.S. envoy to the United Nations, urged intervention in the Balkans war, challenging the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (and Vietnam War veteran) Gen. Colin Powell: ''What's the point of having this superb military you're always talking about if we can't use it?''
Obama reminds Americans of the costs of war – especially measured in the things that military outlays might have purchased -- lamenting that the dollars spent in Iraq and Afghanistan limited "our ability to nation-build here at home. "
He cautioned Thursday that "unless we discipline our thinking, our definitions, our actions, we may be drawn into more wars we don't need to fight…."
Yet in some ways, while some of the threats to the nation are new, the U.S. military in the Obama era remains much as it was in the Bush or Clinton eras. In an era of lone-wolf terrorists and suicidal jihadists, the United States is still equipped for an old-style war against nation-states on sea or on land.
Even with the sequester cutting about 8 percent in available funds for the Pentagon this year, military outlays will amount to about 18 percent of all federal outlays.
According to the London-based think tank the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), the U.S. defense budget "still equals that of the next 14 nations combined."
While he is looking forward to an era when American soldiers won't be in combat, Obama still committed to expensive investments in weapons and hardware.
In his speech to the class of 2013 at the Naval Academy Friday, Obama promised "a shipbuilding plan that puts us on track to achieve a 300-ship fleet" over the next 30 years, "with capabilities that exceed the power of the next dozen navies combined."
In his commencement address at the United States Naval Academy, President Obama touched upon the growing military sexual assault cases, telling graduates, "We have to be determined to stop these crimes. They've got no place in the greatest military on earth."
And then there's the cost of the hardware purchased over the past ten years.
One telling example of maintenance cost was supplied at a hearing Wednesday of the Senate Appropriations Committee's subcommittee on defense.
The MRAP is a heavy Army vehicle developed in a crash program in 2007 to help prevent the deaths and mayhem caused by improvised explosive devices in Iraq. Each MRAP costs up to $1 million.
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno told the Senate subcommittee that "we have 21,000 MRAPs today in our inventory," but only 4,000 will be deployed with active Army units. Another 4,000 will be held reserve "in case we need them for other contingencies." That leaves an excess of 13,000 vehicles.
"We can't afford to sustain 21,000 MRAPs because it would be in addition to all the other equipment that we have to sustain," Odierno told the senators. "We think by keeping 8,000 of them, we can fund that, we can sustain that."
At the same time as taxpayers pay for maintaining MRAPS and building ships, Obama presides over the military health care and retirement system, one of the largest social welfare organizations in the world.
As long ago as 2008, then Secretary of Defense Robert Gates warned Congress that "health care is eating us alive. Our health care budget in 2001 was $19 billion; our request this year is for almost $43 billion." And Gates noted in that testimony that in a few years, nearly two-thirds of Pentagon health care expenditures would be for military retirees, not for the active or reserve force.
The cost pressure comes not just from health care: the Congressional Budget Office recently reported that spending for military retirement pay and survivors' annuities will rise by more than 30 percent over the next decade – even though the number of military retirees and their survivors will remain flat over that period. Most of the growth will occur because benefits are adjusted for inflation.
Even without "perpetual war," there will be long-term costs to maintaining a large military.
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Armed with the newfound clout that comes with directing a blockbuster, Todd Phillips is taking the opportunity to do whatever the hell he wants.
To that end he's teamed up with Joel Silver to produce "Project X," a raunchy new comedy to be helmed by one of the most innovative music video directors.
Nima Nourizadeh, who's worked with acts like Hot Chip, Santogold and Dizzie Rascal among others, will direct the $12-million feature that begins shooting on June 14, reported Deadline Hollywood. Nourizadeh apparently got the job largely on the strength of an Adidas commerical he filmed.
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Little is known about the film -- not even the real title -- but given the brilliance Phillips' "The Hangover" and the great camera work and visual style of Nourizadeh, we're eager to see how this pans out.
Phillips' next film, "Due Date," starring Zach Galifianakis and Robert Downey Jr. comes out Nov. 5.


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TSU Ends First Week Of Practice With Scrimmage
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Tennessee State football ended the first week of spring practice on Saturday morning with a scrimmage at Hale Stadium.
One of the key position battles to watch during the spring heading into the fall is at running back with the departure of Trabis Ward. Two backs fighting for playing time are sophomore Telvin Hooks and freshman Adam Davenport. Hooks and Davenport talked to the media after the morning scrimmage.
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Dear Em,
First of all please excuse the condition of this letter. If you could see me now you would wonder how in world I could write. There is no time like the present, and it pleased me so to get a letter from you yesterday dated Sept 17 that I just can't help begging this paper and starting an answer to it. This old trusty mess pan again does its duty as a desk.
We hit this place yesterday after moving from the place I last wrote. It has been raining now for two or three days, and considering the fact that we are living in these pop tents I can honestly say that Im fairly dry and comfortable, and above all feeling great. Im writing now for one can never tell when he may get another chance for we are on the move and expect to go into action again very soon. The drive continues regardless of the rain but it will only tend to bring about the end sooner.
Yes my rest in the hospital did me the world of good and I hope I can go through the rest of this jam all right. I supose the old veterans that have returned are pretty well thought of and they deserve it let me tell you. They are pretty fortunate to enjoy a taste of civilization again expecially the home brand. I supose it is getting kind of cold over there now and let me tell you Im not welcoming the coming winter any too much. Last year we were billeted in Towns but this year it will be out under the stars in any old hole and glad to get that.
Glad to here that Pa still enjoys his night out once in a while as your letter states. I guess it was kind of tough on Tom to have to return to his ship after his furlough. What you never had you never miss you know. I hear the boys all speak of receiving word from home about that new disease that is spreading around. One fellow said that they have closed up all places of public amusement to try and check it. I hope that none of you folks come in contact with it for I understand it is very disagreeable for a few days.
I received a letter from Mrs Holland some time ago which I have since answered. She wrote a very nice letter and said that of late I haden't been writing very often. I tried to tell her, as I will tell you here that it is almost imposible at times to write much, and when I do write it is home, which is leaving it to you to tell the news.
Saw some Boston American and Posts latly and they sure do print some big headlines on the battles. We are all waiting to get a glance of a Boston Paper bearing the date of Sept. 13-14. The latest news we have is that the President is leaving it to Gen. Foch to deside the new peace offer. At the rate he is going now he will too. From here we can hear some of our peace answers to the Boshe going over now in steel and powder. They're getting peace alright. The peace that he had all maped out for us.
Well Em I hope this finds you all well. Walter Davis is O.K. if you should happen to see Emma, and tell her he is as jolly as ever. Lufkin is in the hospital. Batty Coyne's bunch is near here some where now and Im looking up some of the old timers all the time but can't seem to connect. Best regards to Aunt Madge and the rest. Heard from the boss the other day and learned that three of the fellows have been wounded but out of thirteen that left the shop none are yet represented by a gold star. Blue is good enough for me. Closing the same
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[Ed. Note: Pictured above is the very "Blue Star" or Service Banner which Sam here refers to being displayed at the "shop" (Bristol Patent Leather Co.). This is a rare version of the Banner in the form of a full-sized flag which honors the group of employees who answered the call to arms. The final number of stars was actually 15, each one representing a specific man. Sam's star is believed to be the first one which is furthest to the left or top (depending on which way the banner was displayed) as he was "first to the colors" having been in the service since 1912. Ultimately 5 of the stars were altered into white, indicating those who eventually died in war service.]
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The history of video game consoles
We love video games around here. Whether we're playing the Xbox 360, the PS3 or even an old Atari 2600. We thought we would take a look at the history of gaming consoles from 1972 to the present. You grew up with the vintage consoles, you play the new ones, so take a walk down memory lane and revisit all your favorites from the massive list below.


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Rally falls short
The Bisons have 70 wins and 32 comeback victories in 2010. They nearly added to both on Tuesday night.
Buffalo batted around in the eighth inning, but an early four-run deficit proved to be too big a hole to climb out of in a 7-3 defeat to the Pawtucket Red Sox from Coca-Cola Field. PawSox centerfielder Josh Reddick had five hits, and helped his team pull away late from the Bisons.
The Herd faced a 4-0 deficit in the eight inning when Luis Hernandez singled and Andy Green drew a one-out walk. Then with two outs, Nick Evans breathed live into the team with a two-run double off the left field wall. Kirk Nieuwenhuis followed with a bloop double down the left field line, bringing Buffalo to within 4-3.
The Bisons then loaded the bases as former Herd hurler, Fernando Cabrera, came in and walked Valentino Pascucci and Russ Adams. Cabrera rebounded, however, to get Mike Cervenak to fly out to end the game.
Pawtucket added insurance with three more runs in the top of the ninth inning. Reddick, who homered earlier in the game, drove in the final run for the PawSox on his fifth hit of the game.
The Bisons did have chances to get on the scoreboard earlier in the game but ran themselves into a couple of unnecessary outs. Lucas Duda led off the fourth inning with a double, but was thrown out trying to advance to third base on Evans grounder.
Green led off the sixth inning with a triple into the right field corner. He was thrown out trying to tag and score on Duda's fly ball.
Michael Antonini took the loss for Buffalo. The southpaw allowed four runs in eight innings of work.
The Herd and PawSox will close out their six-game in five-day series on Wednesday night with a 7:05 p.m. first pitch from Coca-Cola Field. The first 4,000 fans through the Swan St. Gate (opens at 6pm) will receive a Fernando Martinez Bobble Head, courtesy of NAPA Auto Parts.
BISONS NOTES: J.R. House lost his 10-game hit streak. The Bisons' catcher was 0-3 with a walk on Tuesday night…Russ Adams reached base all four times he came to the plate. He was 2-2 with a walk and a hit by pitch.